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The Magic Number

A Memoir For My Grandchildren

byDavid Forster Parker

Softcover

Flexible, high-gloss laminated cover

US $110.49

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About the Book

This memoir relates how David Forster Parker overcame a troubled adolescence in a small Canadian city to achieve international prestige in guiding the development of some of the largest new communities in the world. It traces his ancestry of English and Scottish immigrants to Canada in the mid-nineteenth century and the emergence of his revered father from a one-room-schoolhouse education to president of a manufacturing industry during the Great Depression, thereby earning sufficient funds to construct a comfortable house for his family and send all five of his children to university. It explores the author’s failure to achieve academic success until his late twenties, after he married and began his own family.
Beginning after his thirtieth birthday, Parker’s career rapidly escalated to development management of Audubon New Community outside Buffalo, New York, then the creation of Sadat City in Egypt, and generating private housing development in Milton Keynes New City in England; followed by an international consultant career from a Florida home base.
David and Marilynn raised four sons who produced eight grandchildren, all of whom attended his seventy-fifth birthday at their Atlantic Beach home in 2009, a three-day event organized by his wife and family and attended by his four siblings as well as many other relatives and friends from near and far. He plans to keep on offering his consultant services for the indefinite future.

David Forster Parker has been employed in 17 countries as a homebuilder, new community planner and development executive, teacher, consultant and author of dozens of articles and books, both non-fiction and fiction. All of his writings are based upon his career in urban development and marketing real estate. He was born and raised in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, after which he received B.Sc (HH) and MUP degrees from Michigan State University and a doctoral degree in public administration from the State University of New York at Albany. He lives with his wife Marilynn in Atlantic Beach, Florida and can be contacted at david@parkerassociates.com.